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Miniaturized Microwave, Millimeter-wave, and sub-Terahertz Tunable Guided Wave Structures for Wireless Communication Beamforming Applications
DownloadSpring 2024
In order to meet the growing demands for faster and more reliable wireless communication networks, as well as to connect the billions of new devices that will require on demand access to the internet, the telecommunication industry seeks to expand the current wireless communication infrastructure...
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2023-04-01
Traditional cellular and wireless technologies met business and consumer expectations during the first few years of launch. Unfortunately, the rapid growth of wireless demand and internet connectivity in the 21st century has resulted in high bandwidth requirements and an equally proportional need...
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Novel 3D Ultrasound Imaging Techniques Using Top-Orthogonal-to-Bottom-Electrode (TOBE) Arrays
DownloadFall 2019
Ultrasound imaging is a safe, affordable and reliable diagnostic tool widely used in medical professions. While 2D ultrasound imaging is used extensively in clinical environments, 3D ultrasound imaging has not yet seen wide clinical acceptance. This is partly due to the practical limitations on...
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Fall 2018
Chloride intracellular channel (CLIC) proteins comprise six members CLIC1–CLIC6 in mammals and mediate functions not fully known. Their founding member was isolated from bovine kidney using the chloride channel inhibitor indanyloxyacetic acid-94, so CLICs were assumed to be typical anion...
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Fall 2016
In this thesis, we present approximation algorithms for various NP-hard vehicle routing problems, as well as for a related maximum group coverage problem. Our main contribution is a framework to build good constant-factor approximation algorithms for variants of the multi-depot $k$-travelling...
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Fall 2015
Although underlay networks mitigate the dual problems of spectrum congestion and spectrum under-utilization, the bi-directional (primary-to-secondary and secondary-to-primary) interference issues must be addressed to improve their reliability, coverage and capacity. To address these problems,...
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Fall 2015
One of the major challenges of broadband cellular systems is delivering high data rates to the users, especially those at the cell edges. In this thesis, transceiver designs and scheduling algorithms for enhancing cell-edge user experience in emerging and future broadband wireless cellular...
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Fall 2015
The ever increasing demands for mobile network access have resulted a significant growth in bandwidth usage. By improving the system spectral efficiency, multi-way relay networks (MWRNs) provide promising approaches to address this challenge. In this thesis, we propose a novel linear beamforming...
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Transmission and Reception Techniques for Cooperative and Large-Scale MIMO Wireless Systems
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Current and future broadband cellular systems have to employ efficient techniques for the transmission and reception of high speed data. Equipping transmitters and receivers with multiple-antennas is a major step in this direction as it has the potential of providing a substantial spatial...
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Exploring the Association between Parental Concern about Vaccine Safety and Incomplete Childhood Immunization: A Multivariate Model
DownloadSpring 2013
High levels of immunization coverage are required to maintain control of infectious diseases that previously caused significant illness and death in Canada. However, childhood immunizations have been so successful that many Canadians have never seen the impact of these diseases, with some parents...